Statistical assessment of spatio-temporal pollutant trends and meteorological transport models

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1865-1879

  Haas, Timothy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Kriging; Local regression; Monte Carlo hypothesis testing; Sulfate deposition

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

METEOROLOGICAL TRANSPORT MODELS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL POLLUTANT; STATISTICAL ASSESSMENT;

POLLUTION;

RAIN; SULFATE;

MATHEMATICAL MODELING; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; STATISTICS;

POLLUTION MODELLING; STATISTICS;

ACID RAIN; ARTICLE; DRY DEPOSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METEOROLOGY; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032101847     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(97)00418-4     Document Type: Article

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